Schweet!

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Originally posted by srtrax:

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Just do the best you can and make no excuses or apologies.

Well said Terry.

I,m going to do a search, seems to me somebody said something about not going for figured wood any more...
I have liked this project all along and now you have brought it one step higher, Thanks for Sharing!

Mr srtrax, you're a bad man


You do need to go back to that thread and look at the blanks pictured to put everything in perspective. I like a figured blank, but it needs to be well behaved figure and those blanks weren't. Most of the blanks pictured on that thread (including the one I posted) would give you vertigo they had so much going on with them. I do believe you can go "over the top" with figure and IMO, those blanks were.

Here is what I like to follow when it comes figure. Straight through the forearm, turn down at the grip and I'm pretty much open to what ever happens after that.

I upset a few people on that thread with my comments. Opinions were asked and I only gave mine.

Terry

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Mr srtrax, you're a bad man

I hear ya, I've liked all your projects and how they finished up. I think you hit the mother load when you came across this blank, a great balance of everything, I cant see the grain flow on my screen, but know that James got it right, and well the figure you couldnt have asked for better! I came across a very nice english blank that is quarter sawn for my intergal barrel mexican and had it turned to a profile I liked. You never know what inside, like breaking open an egg. At first I hated it because all the mineral streaking is perfect front to back, but the cheekpeice is heavy in marble. When I placed the barreled action and the Blackburn metal by it I was shocked as to how well the total look blended together.
Blah, blah, blah, Anyway...When you cracked this egg you got a double yoke.

Enjoy!

TC1,
The bottom metal looks pretty raw in the photos.
How are you going to finish shape the trigger guard bow? I'm thinking of the flat side surfaces.

Very impressive! I am also impressed with your dust/chip evacuation system. Simple and it seems effective. Good job, sir. I lookf orward to seeing the finished product.

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Originally posted by slancey:
TC1,
The bottom metal looks pretty raw in the photos.
How are you going to finish shape the trigger guard bow? I'm thinking of the flat side surfaces.

I'm just writing the checks on this one. Maybe James will chime in. I remember him saying something about polishing it.

Rusty, I've worked a stock that came off that machince. It was amazing how close it came out.

Terry